{"id":12171,"date":"2022-01-08T12:28:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T11:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/egypt-travel-blog-sandstorm-doldrums\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T01:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:40:48","slug":"egypt-travel-blog-sandstorm-doldrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/egypt-travel-blog-sandstorm-doldrums\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt travel blog &#8211; sandstorm doldrums"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"modal-ready\"><p>The first calm was there &#8211; after 34 days of kite wind &#8230; and despite the forecast of light winds and calm we were kiting again for the last few days. We think that&#8217;s a pretty good result &#8211; and has kept us on our toes since the last post \ud83d\ude42 The group size is currently 11 people, today and tomorrow are still coming <!--more-->3 guests before there are slowly fewer and fewer kiters in the camp and we go back to Germany in 13 days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shaka-gallery beauy-galleryid-12171\" data-featherlight-gallery data-featherlight-filter=\"a\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04327.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04327-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04327-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04327.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6717.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6717-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6717-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6717.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04673.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04673-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04673-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04673.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04774.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04774-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04774-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04774.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6759.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6759-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6759-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6759.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And what was going on here? In addition to an immense amount of time on the water, we sipped a lot of Egyptian coffee, took a closer look at the green desert, yesterday crossed our fingers for the German team and tried to ignore the permanent state of exhaustion and sleep away &#8230; only works moderately well, as we found out \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Luckily we took a few pictures; it starts today with * drum roll *: kite pictures! As always, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Petze-und-Co-fine-art-photo-246308215400558\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petze &amp; Co<\/a> for all the pictures that are not from us \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"shaka-gallery beauy-galleryid-12171\" data-featherlight-gallery data-featherlight-filter=\"a\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04216.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04216-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04216-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04216.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7204.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7204-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7204-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7204.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6893.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6893-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6893-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6893.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02297.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02297-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02297-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02297.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6705.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6705-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6705-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6705.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7534.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7534-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7534-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7534.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04740.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04740-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04740-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04740.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04743.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04743-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04743-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04743.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04758.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04758-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04758-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04758.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6970.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6970-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6970-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6970.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04114.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04114-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04114-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC04114.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/susi_air.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/susi_air-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/susi_air-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/susi_air.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02308.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02308-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02308-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02308.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02326.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02326-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02326-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC02326.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7217.jpg\" class=\"shaka-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7217-300x169.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7217-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_7217.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 275px, (min-width: 992px) 226px, (min-width: 768px) 172px, calc(50vw - 15px)\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And otherwise? We are working flat out on the expansion of the new kite station in Loissin and are also preparing for the first kite instructor training 2019 in Loissin: <a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/termin\/aitc-15-04-19-04-2019\/\">AITC from April 15-19, 2019<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/termin\/mfa-20-04-2019\/\">MFA on April 20, 2019<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/termin\/itc-22-04-19-26-2019\/\">ITC from April 22-26, 2019<\/a> . We keep you up to date!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4870 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6540.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset in Lahami\" width=\"864\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6540.jpg 864w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6540-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6540-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6540-540x304.jpg 540w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6540-352x198.jpg 352w, https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MG_6540-360x204.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first calm was there &#8211; after 34 days of kite wind &#8230; and despite the forecast of light winds and calm we were kiting again for the last few days. We think that&#8217;s a pretty good result &#8211; and has kept us on our toes since the last post \ud83d\ude42 The group size is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1307],"tags":[1327,1412,1388],"class_list":["post-12171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kite-trips","tag-egypt-en","tag-kite-instructor-training","tag-lull","clearfix"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15036,"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions\/15036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitesafe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}